Should BR stay?

[Thaumagurist*]

Where's the money going to come from

At a guess, John Madejski? Also, I'm sure we have some of the budget left over from the last transfer window - some of it was allocated for the purchase of Tommy Smith and I think that is unused...

[Hoop Blah]

getting back to the point, i think the Jan transfer window will be the making of Rodgers. I can see him getting some good players in and us having a good 2nd half to the season.

Whatever it is you're on, can I have some?

Where's the money going to come from and who do you think will want to come here?

It's quite plausable that Rodgers will still get the money he had available for the Smith purchase in January.

If he clears out a few of his squad players and further reduces the wage bill he might get a bit of cash to spend too.

He might also just go out and sign a couple of good loan signings to see us through to the end of the season. Who knows?

[winchester_royal]

Interesting that it's still 50/50.

Perhaps his position isn't as untenable as some would have us believe.

[Thaumagurist*]

Interesting that it's still 50/50.

Perhaps his position isn't as untenable as some would have us believe.

I haven't voted yet.

[Royal Lady]

I thought the money we were going to use on Smith was, instead, put towards getting Raziak and McAnuff? Certainly, if we'd got Smith, I doubt we'd have bothered to get Raziak as well.
If we still had the Smith "money" why on earth didn't he get a couple more loan players in? Or was it, as I alluded to in my earlier post,
because no one wants to come here?

[Focher]

getting back to the point, i think the Jan transfer window will be the making of Rodgers. I can see him getting some good players in and us having a good 2nd half to the season.

Whatever it is you're on, can I have some?

Where's the money going to come from and who do you think will want to come here?

Plenty of players will want to come here, who well thats down to Rodgers and KN08 END. Money will be available Madejski has never said any season 'there will be considerable funds available' or 'we wont be spending anything', he just says its a tight ship etc etc etc.

We will spend in Jan im sure of that, and just because we are sat at the wrong end of the table doesn't mean nobody will want to come to us, the only stumbling block on some will be wages, and generally those greedy players don't work out for us like Halford, Fae etc.

[Royal Lady]

RL, if you were a professional footballer, and you had the choice of joining two clubs.
One of them was a club with an inexperienced manager and the other was a club with a respected experienced manager, which would you choose?
Of course players will be apprahensive about joining us when they know we have a manager who is barely pottytrained!!

It's not even so much the experience of the manager, as opposed to league position and other players in the side, I'd say.

[Royal With Cheese]

Interesting that it's still 50/50.

Perhaps his position isn't as untenable as some would have us believe.

I don't think his position is untenable. I just wish he'd keep his "oustanding" mouth shut.

[Hoop Blah]

I thought the money we were going to use on Smith was, instead, put towards getting Raziak and McAnuff? Certainly, if we'd got Smith, I doubt we'd have bothered to get Raziak as well.
If we still had the Smith "money" why on earth didn't he get a couple more loan players in? Or was it, as I alluded to in my earlier post,
because no one wants to come here?

Some of it may well have gone on Rasiak, but as he's a totally different player I'm not sure he was instead of Smith and as he only cost something like £250k I think some of it will be left. I think McAnuff was always on his way wasn't he? It was just the timing of it that made it look like he was reaction to the Smith deal falling through.

I'm sure there were plenty of players who'd want to come here, but they apparently they weren't the right quality and type of player Rodgers wanted. I'll wait and see if he can attract the right calibre of player to improve the team before I slag him off for it though.

[Royal Lady]

I wasn't slagging him off. I was asking a question more than anything. Unless I was a lower league player, however, I doubt I'd be very tempted to come to RFC at the current time, what with the obvious low level wages etc that we'd be paying.

[winchester_royal]

Interesting that it's still 50/50.

Perhaps his position isn't as untenable as some would have us believe.

I don't think his position is untenable. I just wish he'd keep his "oustanding" mouth shut.

Doesn't that go for almost anyone in football though?

LOL at how the media have manipulated Tabb's interview.

[Sharpy]

no

[RoyalBlue]

getting back to the point, i think the Jan transfer window will be the making of Rodgers. I can see him getting some good players in and us having a good 2nd half to the season.

Whatever it is you're on, can I have some?

Where's the money going to come from and who do you think will want to come here?

It's quite plausable that Rodgers will still get the money he had available for the Smith purchase in January.

Only according to Rodgers' best mate (Dellor), Madejski recently told him that there would be no money available in January.

With such a dodgy haircut and the ability to make frequently make things disappear without trace, we could have a new Paul Daniels in the making!

I thought the money we were going to use on Smith was, instead, put towards getting Raziak and McAnuff? |

That is not what the servants and disciples of Madejski informed us at the time. The signings of Gregor and Jobi were already being lined up and were in addition to, not panic replacements for, Tommy Smith.

[Ian Royal]

You fail to mention that it was when Duberry came into the team that our horrific run ensued.

why do you think that? without looking too hard I find

december 1st, home to coventry

"Reading: Hahnemann, Rosenior, Ingimarsson, Duberry, Armstrong, Kebe (Henry 85), Harper, Cisse (Gunnarsson 77), Stephen Hunt, Doyle, Noel Hunt (Long 74). Subs Not Used: Federici, Matejovsky."

december 20th, away win at brum

"Reading: Federici, Rosenior, Duberry, Ingimarsson, Armstrong, Henry (Gunnarsson 75), Cisse, Harper, Stephen Hunt, Doyle, Noel Hunt (Long 27). Subs Not Used: Andersen, Matejovsky, Bikey.

well before the horrific run ensued

i apologise for being about a month out then

That month was out best run iirc.

[Ian Royal]

getting back to the point, i think the Jan transfer window will be the making of Rodgers. I can see him getting some good players in and us having a good 2nd half to the season.

Whatever it is you're on, can I have some?

Where's the money going to come from and who do you think will want to come here?

It's quite plausable that Rodgers will still get the money he had available for the Smith purchase in January.

If he clears out a few of his squad players and further reduces the wage bill he might get a bit of cash to spend too.

He might also just go out and sign a couple of good loan signings to see us through to the end of the season. Who knows?

Cummings and Howard* were bought after the Smith deal, that's about £800k gone.

*who we weren't originally going to buy.

[Royalee]

I thought the money we were going to use on Smith was, instead, put towards getting Raziak and McAnuff? Certainly, if we'd got Smith, I doubt we'd have bothered to get Raziak as well.
If we still had the Smith "money" why on earth didn't he get a couple more loan players in? Or was it, as I alluded to in my earlier post,
because no one wants to come here?

The club said at the time that the Rasiak and McAnuff signings would have happened regardless of whether or not Smith came here. We tried to get a couple more loan players in.

[Ian Royal]

We definitely weren't planning on buying Howard though, that was very last minute. Hence the whole deadline thing. Horay for spending money for a striker on a midfielder we were already getting on loan when we already had about 3 or 4 attacking midfielders on the books!!!!

That Rodgers, he's a one.

[Southbank Old Boy]

We also got rid of Harper and Rosenoir at the same time, presumably the fees included there would cover the outgoings to an extent

Not sure i agree we will have much to spend though

[Ian Royal]

We also got rid of Harper and Rosenoir at the same time, presumably the fees included there would cover the outgoings to an extent

Not sure i agree we will have much to spend though

Probably more a question of covering the wages seeing as those two were loaned out rather than sold. There may have been a fee, but unlikly to be as much as a transfer fee I'd have thought

[Southbank Old Boy]

Quite often the loan fees are quite significant, I cant remember the details of Kitsons but wasnt that a few hundred thousand to get him here last season????

I didnt hear how much Howard cost, but I cant imagine the difference was much if anything between him and Harper switching